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The adobe New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Santa FeThe adobe New Mexico Museum of Art
Plaza de España, Seville
SevillePlaza de España

Photos: Santa Fe by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Seville by Tibor Kovacs, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Santa Fe or Seville?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Santa Fe for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Santa Fe’s own page.

Choose Seville for

  • nightlife
  • getting around
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Seville’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Santa Fe 5, Seville 18: Seville leads by 13 points.
Food & drink. Santa Fe 62, Seville 73: Seville leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Santa Fe 66, Seville 82: Seville leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Santa Fe 22, Seville 62: Seville leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Santa Fe 80, Seville 52: Santa Fe leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Santa Fe 70, Seville 80: Seville leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Santa Fe 45, Seville 55: Seville leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Santa Fe 40, Seville 72: Seville leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Santa Fe 62, Seville 55: Santa Fe leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Santa Fe 30, Seville 58: Seville leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Santa Fe 55, Seville 68: Seville leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Santa Fe 55, Seville 40: Santa Fe leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Santa Fe and Seville.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Santa Fe
49match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness with your weighting.

Seville
Best match
60match

Wins on nightlife and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Santa Fe in July

31 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
60 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Seville in July

36 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Santa Fe's station stands 199 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Santa Fe has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Santa Fe: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Fe / Cieneguilla (12.4 km from centre). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSanta FeSeville
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,134 m18 m
Main airportSanta Fe Municipal Airport (SAF)12 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre96 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSanta FeSeville
City population87,505689,423
People per km²6454,896
Museums within 10 km1024
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.